A study was conducted in mixed type multi-purposes cattle raising region of Ethiopia on 287 households (146 households with case of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and 141 free of TB) and 287 herds consisting of 2,033 cattle belonging to these households to evaluate transmission of TB between cattle and farmers. Interview, bacteriological examinations and molecular typing were used for human subjects while comparative intradermal tuberculin (CIDT) test, post mortem and bacteriological examinations, and molecular typing were used for animal studies.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/transmission-mycobacterium-tuberculosis-between-farmers-and-cattle-central-ethiopia
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0076891
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/gobena-ameni
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/konjit-tadesse
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/elena-hailu-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-one
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tuberculosis
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cattle
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ethiopia
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/animal-diseases
